The Wizard of Bronze, Part II

The Ferry Piers in Central HK

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My wife and I - she 9 months pregnant - had decided to go into the city to see an exhibit on the Surrealists. This was peak Covid mind you, so things were a little strange, and a little strained.

Hong Kong went into covid on the tail-end of about a year of serious civil unrest, and between the pandemic and the protests, a lot of expats had decided to leave.

Kowloon side.

At the same time - it became extremely expensive to ship one's belongings out of Hong Kong - the prices became astronomical. This led to a lot of things left behind.

In our neighborhood, there was a particular shelf which was left out by the side of the road and that is where people often would leave items for people to take home with them for free.

a rose-quartz merkabah at the heart of a torus and a decorated tin table.

Which brings me to what I think of as my "magic radar" - I feel as if I have an instinct for finding magical items. What is a magical item: the easiest way to describe it is that such an item has a life beyond it's own utility - magic is the measure of the non-instrumentive meaning associated with a thing. A stick is a stick: but if a child plays with it and makes it into a wand - then it is magic. Magic, essentially is an aura of story that can embue some objects and people and places more than others.

Central HK

So, it's fair to say that that's what was at play when I caught the glimpse of a curious object, resting on a makeshift shelf by the side of the road.

What's that?

Too be continued...